Starting Your Brand New Druid

This is for you, Yanader!

I am certainly not the be all and end all of druid healing, or druids in general. In answer to the question “what stats does a feral druid use?” I just said, “err…dunno”.

I am, however, Flames’ only resto druid (main spec), and I do pride myself if not knowing EVERYTHING, knowing enough to know why I heal as I do and why things work like they do. But I don’t want to recycle what other, better people have written. I would rather try my best to compile all the possible, available resources for someone levelling up a druid at the moment.

So, here we go.

How do I level as a resto druid?

READ THIS. It is everything you’ll ever need, level by level.

I’m level 80, what gear do I need?

Druid Main’s guide to “what to do at 80” is an awesome place to start.

Slightly more recently, you might find Treebounds 3 part guide really useful for exactly what gear you’ll want to pick up from heroics.

One of my most favourite blogs (and the one I use for my gear list now), HoTs and DoTs have also done a guide for gearing up a fresh 80 resto druid.

I’m starting to raid, what gear do I need?

Here’s a haste specific gear list from Tree Haelz. They’ve also done a full gear list.

These two are the guides I use. This ten-man one is for frost badge gear, ten man raiding etc, and this 25 man one for a little in front of our progression curve but a lot of the 2nd/3rd choice slots are achievable for us.

I’ve always been a DPS. What are these “raid frames” you’re talking about?

The Murloc Parliament guide to add-ons for healers is quite frankly Made Of Win.

What the fuck are all these HoTs all about then?

Take a look at the “Think Like A Healer” series of posts from Looking For More.

For a quick and easy starter, try the Cheat Sheet at Revive & Rejuvenate.

Lisanna at Restokin gives a detailed guide of healing in Patch 3.3.

You know how I’m always whining about haste? Well read this article here to understand why.

Enjoy!